“Maks, I would never hit you, just saying,” Abby Lee said during the program before criticizing Meryl‘s “sickled feet”.

“I really don’t care for anything she has to say,” Maks said afterwards in the Skybox just before they heard their scores.

When EOnline caught up with Meryl and Maks afterwards, Meryl put her two cents in on the issue: “I always take constructive criticism and I don’t think what she said was inaccurate, but did it warrant an eight, I’m not sure.”